On 07/05/14 15:39, Joe Orton wrote: > On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 03:19:42PM +0200, Jan Staněk wrote: >> One of the planned parts of the F21 System Wide Change: BerkeleyDB 6 [1] >> is the introduction of downstream symbol versioning of both versions of >> the libraries (libdb with v6 and libdb5 with v5). This part is planned >> in order to not introduce bugs similar to [2]. However, if we introduce >> downstream versioning (as upstream is generally unresponsive), then we >> face the problem similar to [3]. > > If we keep libdb5 (forever?) then the [3] problem is less of an issue, > IMO. Given that portably linking against libdb has historically been a > major headache I'd be surprised if there are any binary third-party apps > which even try doing this, to be honest. for a data point, see this OOo commit from 2007 which equips the (bundled, of course) libdb*.so with a custom version script just to avoid conflicts and resulting crashes: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=cd83aeb5fdde8184aa8226a9334546c413c1b318 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
